Two people play the tabletop football game Subbuteo at Stephen Morton's home in Essex, England. Morton's house is full of lovingly recreated models, complete with players and fans, and an amazing collection of football memorabilia. Every year, he opens his doors on the 29th of December, inviting fellow competitors to the annual Subbuteo match.
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Firefighters at Muan International Airport in South Korea, the site of the Jeju Air plane that crashed on arrival on December 29, killing 179 people. The Boeing 737-800, which originated from Bangkok, was operated by South Korea's most popular budget airline. Only two crew members survived the crash, making it South Korea's worst plane crash.
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A young tourist slides inside a carved ice tunnel at the annual Harbin Ice Lantern Art Fair in Heilongjiang, in China's northernmost province. At night the magnificent structures, painstakingly built by thousands of artisans during December, are lit up with colorful lights that make the snow glow.
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A person enjoys the Northern Lights in the sky above the outskirts of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. A solar storm on New Year's Day heralded the year's first display of the colorful phenomenon known as the aurora borealis.
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Hilde Dosogne completes her 366th race in 2024, in Ghent, Belgium, in aid of the BIG breast cancer research group. Dosogne broke the unofficial Guinness World Record in May 2024 by completing his 151st consecutive daily race.
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The world said goodbye to 2024 and welcomed 2025 in style. The event was marked by many beautiful fireworks displays around the world, including the one enjoyed by a family at Ancol Beach in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Pyrotechnics also lit up the night sky over the famous pyramids of Giza, Egypt – one of the seven wonders of the world.
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Angela McClements – wearing 'Where's Wally?' costume – joins the throngs of revelers who celebrate New Year's Day with a dip in the harbor in Carnlough, Northern Ireland, during the annual dive and swim to help those in need.
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Palestinians are looking for a place to get food prepared by a charity kitchen, amid the ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
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US police say they believe the explosion outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day was unrelated to the deadly car attack in New Orleans. The driver of a Tesla Cybertruck was killed and seven others injured in Las Vegas after the vehicle – which was filled with petrol cans and explosives – exploded.
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